Talk:Post-traumatic stress disorder
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editThis sentence is very hard to read: "Trauma victims social interactions, with significant others, have been shown to influence PTSD symptoms. ". May I suggest "Social interaction between trauma victims and significant others influences PTSD symptoms."? A reference is also needed 178.165.189.175 (talk) 04:50, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
- Adjusted with Special:Diff/1334969163. This is a 13 year old preliminary study, which needs confirmation/updating, as indicated. Next time, just WP:FIXIT. Zefr (talk) 17:11, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
Other | Military programs
editThe use of the word "them" is used excessively in this paragraph to refer to combat veterans. I don't like this. Why not replace "them" with "veteran", "combat veteran" or "service member"? It comes off to me as referring to some group as "those people". It's condescending. ~2026-32707-39 (talk) 20:30, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Earliest historical documentation predates ancient Greece (COI disclosure)
editCOI disclosure: I am the author of the review essay cited below. In line with WP:COI and WP:SELFCITE, I am not editing the article directly but raising this on the Talk page for independent editors to assess.
The History section of the lead currently states that "symptoms of trauma-related mental disorders have been documented since at least the time of the ancient Greeks." A recent peer-reviewed review essay in BMJ Medical Humanities documents descriptions of post-traumatic symptomatology that predate classical Greece by over a millennium — notably the cuneiform lamentations following the destruction of Ur (c. 2027–2003 BCE), which describe insomnia, tremors and intrusive imagery, and Egyptian medical papyri (c. 1900 BCE) describing conversion-like reactions. The source frames these as phenomenological parallels rather than retrospective diagnoses.
If editors consider it due, the phrase could be adjusted to reflect that documented descriptions extend back to ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources, not only to the ancient Greeks. Suggested supporting reference:
Paganin, Walter (2026). "Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications". Medical Humanities. doi:10.1136/medhum-2025-013623.
I leave it to uninvolved editors to judge whether this is an appropriate addition. ~~~~ ~2026-31267-54 (talk) 09:54, 2 June 2026 (UTC)